Where: Peru (6.7° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.4° S, 55.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coilopoceras newelli ammonoid zone, Cajamarca Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cajamarca Fm, which is locally overlain by the CelendÃn Fm (Coniacian). AGE: middle to Late Turonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Coilopoceras newelli zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection from 3 m thick limestone unit, immediately above base of section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, nodular, gray, blue, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Benavides; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: V. E. Benavides. REPOSITORY: AMNH.
Primary reference: V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88129: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Coilopoceras newelli Benavides-Caceres 1956 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Cardium lissoni cockle | |
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin |